US 12,218,944 B1
Group travel between artificial reality destinations
Michael Hadley, Los Angeles, CA (US); Danyang Zhao, Oakland, CA (US); Patrick McGartoll, Sunnyvale, CA (US); and Nicolas Sleiman Machado, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Meta Platform Technologies, LLC, Menlo Park, CA (US)
Filed by Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC, Menlo Park, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 10, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/045,203.
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 21/10 (2013.01); G06T 19/00 (2011.01); H04L 67/131 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 63/104 (2013.01) [G06F 3/011 (2013.01); G06F 21/10 (2013.01); G06T 19/00 (2013.01); H04L 63/102 (2013.01); H04L 67/131 (2022.05); G06T 2219/024 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for facilitating virtual group travel to an artificial reality destination, the method comprising:
providing, to multiple artificial reality devices, access to an instance of an artificial reality experience, the multiple artificial reality devices having assigned a session identifier corresponding to a group of artificial reality users;
receiving input to initiate the virtual group travel to the artificial reality destination, the artificial reality destination being associated with a hosting computing system;
determining that an artificial reality device of the multiple artificial reality devices does not have access rights to the artificial reality destination and in response:
pausing a transition from the instance of the artificial reality experience to the artificial reality destination for the artificial reality device and facilitating display of an artificial reality overlay page on the artificial reality device, the artificial reality overlay page having an option to acquire the access rights to the artificial reality destination; and
receiving selection of the option to acquire the access rights to the artificial reality destination from the artificial reality device and granting the access rights to the artificial reality destination to the artificial reality device; and
transmitting the session identifier to the hosting computing system,
wherein the hosting computing system provides, based on the session identifier, the virtual group travel by the multiple artificial reality devices from the instance of the artificial reality experience to an instance of the artificial reality destination.